Thank you! 2021-22 Season
Thank you to everyone who made this year’s program possible! We are so appreciative of the outstanding artists who shared their works, time, and ideas with us: Renée Green, Lynda Benglis, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Pom Bunsermvicha, Tulapop Saenjaroen, Nazli Dinçel, Meriem Bennani, Andy Slater, Dani ReStack, Sheilah ReStack, and Nick Briz, as well as the artists […]
Fall 2021 Season Recap
We would like to thank all of you for joining us both virtually and in person for our screenings and conversations with the fantastic artists of the Fall 2021 season of Conversations at the Edge! A big thank you as well to all of our presenting partners, including the School of the Art Institute of […]
Tulapop Saenjaroen: Short Films
Thursday, October 28–Thursday, November 04 Recent films by Thai artist and filmmaker Tulapop Saenjaroen. Theatrical Screening A Room with a Coconut View, People on Sunday, Squish!, Notes from the Periphery Thursday, October 28, 6:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Screenings A Room with a Coconut View, People on Sunday October 29–November 4 Gene Siskel […]
Anocha Suwichakornpong: Mundane History and Nightfall
Saturday, October 23, 5:00 p.m. Theatrical Screening Gene Siskel Film Center The corporeal and the cosmic collide to mesmerizing effect in Anocha Suwichakornpong’s debut feature. Mundane History begins straightforwardly enough, as nurse Pun takes a new job caring for Ake, a paralyzed young man whose angry defiance gradually softens into grudging respect. But as the two men […]
Anocha Suwichakornpong, Tulapop Saenjaroen, and Pom Bunsermvicha in Conversation
Friday, October 22, 6:00 p.m Virtual Event Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Closed captions available Join Anocha Suwichakornpong, Tulapop Saenjaroen, and Pom Bunsermvicha for a wide-ranging conversation about their collaborative projects, self-reflexive approach to media, and engagement with the history and politics of Thailand. Moderated by Melika Bass. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Anocha Suwichakornpong is a […]
Anocha Suwichakornpong: By the Time It Gets Dark
Thursday, October 21–Thursday, October 28 Theatrical Screening with Lemongrass Girl (Pom Bunsermvicha, 2021) Thursday, October 21, 6:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Screenings October 22–October 28 Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema 2016, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand / France / Netherlands / Qatar, DCP, 105 minutes Over the last 15 years, Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong has emerged […]
Pom Bunsermvicha: Lemongrass Girl
Thursday, October 21–Thursday, November 04 Theatrical Screening with By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2016) Thursday, October 21, 6:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Screenings October 29–November 4 Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema According to Thai superstition, a virgin can ward off rain by planting lemongrass upside down underneath an open sky. This […]
Lynda Benglis in Conversation
Friday, October 08, 6:00 p.m. Virtual Event Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Closed captions available Join Lynda Benglis and Molly Donovan, curator of contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art, for a wide-ranging look at Benglis’s groundbreaking 1970s videos and related projects. Donovan organized the National Gallery of Art’s exhibition Lynda Benglis, on view […]
Lynda Benglis: Works in Video
Thursday, October 07–Thursday, October 14 Five videos by groundbreaking artist Lynda Benglis. Presented in partnership with Video Data Bank. Theatrical Screening Thursday, October 7, 6:00 pm CT Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Screenings Friday, October 8–Thursday, October 14 Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Closed captions available Renowned for her bold and tactile sculptures, Lynda […]
Renée Green In Conversation
Monday, September 27, 6:00 p.m. Virtual Event Zoom Join artist Renée Green and Jordan Carter, Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, for this in-depth conversation about her expansive and research-intensive practice. Presented in partnership with Video Data Bank and the Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of […]
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Conversations at the Edge is a weekly series of screenings, performances, and talks by groundbreaking media artists.
CATE is organized by SAIC's Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and SAIC's Video Data Bank.
Programs take place at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State / Chicago, IL / 312.846.2600), unless otherwise noted.
